ChatGPT has stunned the tech world after successfully bypassing the “I am not a robot” verification designed to keep bots from accessing the system.
This new, and for some, "terrifying" development comes with the latest version of ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence chatbot created by Open AI, which now allows the creation of AI agents.
As per Open AI’s blogpost, the agent is designed to handle complex tasks on user’s behalf from start to finish.
The blogpost read, “ChatGPT now thinks and acts. It can intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in securely when needed, run code and conduct analysis.
It appears that the online autopilot function can really think and act as it recently passed Cloudfare's two-step anti-bot verification, the system put in place to prevent automated spam.
A Reddit user shared a screenshot of their computer screen as the ChatGPT agent was performing tasks, captioning, “Agent casually clicking ‘I am not a robot’ button.”
The picture featured the computer screen showing autopilot clicking verify anti-bot identity and a message popped on screen: “The link is inserted, so now I’ll click the ‘Verify you are human’ checkbox to complete the verification on Cloudflare. This step is necessary to prove I am not a bot and proceed with the action.”
Another screenshot showed the verification successfully completed, as the message on screen read, “The Cloudflare challenge was successful. Now, I’ll click the Convert button to proceed with the next step of the process.”
Internet users were stunned as some questioned the usefulness of captcha after this development, one netizen wrote, “Captcha will become useless,” another penned, “What’s the point of Captcha then??”
Open AI hasn’t commented on the matter, however, their blogpost assures users that the Agent will ask permission before taking actions of consequence.